The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and choice reaction times.

ABSTRACT: The identification of faked identities, especially within the Internet environment, still remains a challenging issue both for companies and researchers. Recently, however, latency-based lie detection techniques have been developed to evaluate whether the respondent is the real owner of a certain identity. Among the paradigms applied to this purpose, the technique of asking unexpected questions has proved to be useful to differentiate liars from truth-tellers. The aim of the present study was to assess whether a choice reaction times (RT) paradigm, combined with the unexpected question technique, could efficiently detect identity liars. Results demonstrate that the most informative feature in distinguishing liars from truth-tellers is the Inverse Efficiency Score (IES, an index that combin

SUBMITTER: Monaro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8357779 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature